Did they give you a full 30 days notice? If not you can take his ass to court. The owner from my first house quit making payments on it while I was living there and one day the sherrif came up and posted and immediate eviction notice. Turns out he had been given his 30 days in the mail and didn't tell me so he could get one more months rent out of me. He didn't tell the guy he had hired as the landlord either. Anyways after a long horse and pony show I proved I had been paying my rent and got a two week extension to get my shit up and out of there. Really sucked, had a bright colored EVICTION notice on my place (that you cant legally remove) even though I paid my bills.
As for that other stuff man I urge you to go back to school or atleast consider a trade. I don't recall what it is/was specifically you were wanting to get into career wise but if you're passionate about it I wouldn't let a hiccup (and that's all that all this is in the grand scheme of things) like this stop you from manifesting that shit. No girl or family advice from me, I'm actually in a strikingly similar situation. Tense family ties all around and I just recently shit on a 2.5 year relationship.